Franz Edmund Josef von Schmitz-Grollenburg
Franz Edmund Joseph Ignaz Philipp Bartholomaeus Freiherr von Schmitz-Grollenburg (born August 24, 1776 in Wetzlar , † February 19, 1844 in Hanover ) was a German diplomat , district president and imperial baron . During the so-called “ French era ” he was an important figure in history, especially of the Saarland .
Life
origin
Franz Edmund Josef von Schmitz-Grollenburg was the son of the Reich Chamber Court assessor Friedrich Franz Josef Freiherr von Schmitz, called Grollenburg , who had become Reich Freiherr in 1792 and lived in Wetzlar until 1818, as well as the Maria Scholastika Geduld von Jungsfeld . He was one of eleven siblings. His eldest brother was the later politician Philipp Moritz von Schmitz-Grollenburg .
family
Franz Edmund Josef von Schmitz-Grollenburg married Isabella von Zillerberg (1779–1845) on May 28, 1801 , she was the daughter of the real Imperial Secret Council, treasurer of the Electorate of Cologne and envoy of the directorate at the Imperial Assembly in Regensburg Johann Sebastian von Zillerberg and Therese von Lützow . Schmitz-Grollenburg had four daughters with his wife:
- Maria Josepha Isabella (January 17, 1808 - June 13, 1863) ∞ Adolf von der Horst (1806–1880), Member of Parliament.
- Johanna Scholastika ∞ Joseph Heinrich von Solemacher, Councilor
- Therese Maria Anna Isabella von (* July 26, 1806; † January 31, 1887) ∞ Ernst Wilhelm Georg Heinrich Friedrich von Korff zu Waghorst (* September 13, 1792; † November 11, 1860), district administrator
One daughter went to the St. Annenstift in Munich.
Career
Franz Edmund Josef von Schmitz-Grollenburg attended high school in Würzburg . In 1790 he received the baron diploma in the Imperial Vicariate of the Electoral Palatinate . From 1793 to 1797 he studied law at the University of Erfurt and at the University of Göttingen . On January 1, 1797, von Schmitz-Grollenburg was initially appointed court and government councilor in the services of Salzburg , a good four years later on May 2, 1801, chamberlain for Salzburg . From 1801 to 1806 von Schmitz-Grollenburg acted as envoy for the dynasties of Hohenzollern and Arenberg .
At the end of the so-called French era , von Schmitz zu Grollenburg was governor of the forest department in Luxembourg from 1814 to 1815 , from May 1815 governor general of the department de la Sarre in Kreuznach and from June in Trier . On March 13, 1816 he became a department director at the government in Koblenz . Shortly afterwards, on August 9, 1817, he was promoted to Vice President of the Trier government, and just under a year later, on May 29, 1818, he was appointed District President there. On October 31, 1831, von Schmitz zu Grollenburg was appointed district president in Düsseldorf and was active in this position until his retirement on March 1, 1834.
Von Schmitz-Grollenburg died in Hanover in 1844. His grave stone with the family crest found there at the site of the 1926 abandoned St. John's cemetery between the Hildesheimerstraße and Maschstraße .
Honors
- Franz Edmund Joseph Ignaz Philipp Bartholomaeus Freiherr von Schmitz-Grollenburg was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class with Ribbon .
literature
- Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 728 .
- Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight, New nekrolog der Deutschen , 1844, part 1, p. 171f, digitized
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see inscription on his grave slab
- ↑ see GND number of the German National Library
- ↑ a b c d e N.N .: The vacuum of the "French era" ... (see web links)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Joachim Conrad: Schmitz-Grollenburg Franz Edmund Ignatz Philipp Bartholomäus von (see web links), Conrad refers to the data from Horst Romeyk: The leading state and municipal administrative officials ... (see literature)
- ↑ http://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/portal/Internet/finde/langDatsatz.php?urlID=857&url_tabelle=tab_person
- ^ Arnold Nöldeke : St. Johannis Friedhof , in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hannover, self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3 -87898-151-1 ), p. 257
Daniel Heinrich Delius (1816–1825) | Franz Edmund Josef von Schmitz-Grollenburg (1825–1831) | Ernst von Bodelschwingh the Elder (1831–1834) | Adalbert von Ladenberg (1834–1837) | Eduard von Schaper (1839–1842) | Rudolf von Auerswald (1842–1848) | Johann Baptist Birck (1848–1849) | Wilhelm Sebaldt (1849–1863) | Julius von Schleinitz (1863–1865) | Konstantin von Gaertner (1866–1870) | Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen (1870–1872) | Arthur von Wolff (1872–1881) | Berthold von Nasse (1881–1888) | Albert von Pommer Esche (1888–1890) | Adolf von Heppe (1890–1899) | Eduard zur Nedden (1899–1903) | Alfred von Bake (1903–1908) | Constanz von Baltz (1908–1918) | Wilhelm Momm (1918–1920) | Johannes Fuchs (1920–1922) | Konrad Saaßen (1922–1936) | Rudolf Klein (1936) | Adolf Varain (1936–1939) | Heinrich Christian Siekmeier (1939–1945) | Wilhelm Steinlein (1945–1958) | Josef Schulte (1958–1964) | Konrad Schubach (1964–1973) | Julius Saxler (1973–1981) | Gerhard Schwetje (1982–1991) | Walter Blankenburg (1991–1997) | Heinrich Studentkowski (1997–1999)
Philipp von Pestel (1816–1831) | Franz Edmund Josef von Schmitz-Grollenburg (1831–1834) | Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1834–1837) | Adolph von Spiegel-Borlinghausen (1837–1848) | Friedrich von Spankeren (1849–1850) | Leo von Massenbach (1850–1866) | Friedrich von Kühlwetter (1866–1871) | Alexander von Götz and Schwanenflies (1871) | August von Ende (1872–1876) | Karl Hermann Bitter (1876–1877) | Robert Eduard von Hagemeister (1877–1883) | Hans Hermann von Berlepsch (1883–1889) | Eberhard von der Recke von der Horst (1889–1895) | Georg von Rheinbaben (1896–1899) | Hans Dietrich von Holleuffer (1899–1902) | Arthur Schreiber (1903–1909) | Francis Kruse (1909-1919) | Hugo Landé (1919) | Walther Grützner (1920–1923) | Karl Bergemann (1924–1933) | Carl Christian Schmid (1933–1938) | Herbert Fuchs (1938–1939) | Eggert Reeder (1939–1940) | Wilhelm Burandt (1941–1944) | Eggert Reeder (1944–1945) | Eduard Sträter (1945–1946) | Kurt Necker (1946–1947) | Kurt Baurichter (1947–1967) | Hans Otto Bäumer (1967–1975) | Achim Rohde (1975–1983) | Hermann Strich (1983–1986) | Fritz Behrens (1986–1995) | Jürgen Büssow (1995-2010) | Annemarie Lütkes (2010–2017) | Birgitta Radermacher (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitz-Grollenburg, Franz Edmund Josef von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmitz Grollenburg, Franz Edmund Josef von; Grollenburg, Franz Edmund Josef von; Schmitz-Grollenburg, Franz Edmund Joseph Ignaz Philipp von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German baron and diplomat, Prussian regional president |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wetzlar |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1844 |
| Place of death | Hanover |